P. T. Barnum’s 10 Most Famous Human “Freak” Show Attractions

During the 1800s, Phineas Taylor Barnum – better known as “P.T. Barnum” – became famous as “The Great American Showman.” Barnum specialized in displaying odd and intriguing attractions to audiences who were eager to pay to see something out of the ordinary.

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8. The Warren Sisters
7. Myrtle Corbin, The Four-Legged Girl
6. Zip, The Pinhead
5. Prince Randian, The Living Torso
4. The Wild Men of Borneo
3. Josephine Clofullia, The Bearded Lady
2. Chang Yu Sing, The Chinese Giant
1. Isaac W. Sprague, “The Human Skeleton”
Source/Further reading:

https://daily.jstor.org/joice-heth-how-an-elderly-slave-launched-p-t-barnum-career/
https://youtu.be/CShh8uAXZg0
http://www.barnum-museum.org/manmythlegend.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavinia_Warren
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrtle_Corbin
https://youtu.be/stXcSdV7IeU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_the_Pinhead
https://youtu.be/vufdRHu5Mig
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetra-amelia_syndrome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Men_of_Borneo
https://youtu.be/TKmkWbbzxJU
https://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/hypertrichosis
http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1351212
https://youtu.be/blLp1iP1aPo
https://www.mndassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/02D-Progressive-muscular-atrophy.pdf
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PT_Barnum_1851-crop.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barnum_Courier,_1883.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joice_heth_poster.jpeg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_S._Stratton,_a_dwarf_known_as_General_Tom_Thumb,_age_Wellcome_V0007333.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Sherwood_Stratton.png
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PT_Barnum_and_General_Tom_Thumb_by_Root,_c1850.png
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tom_Thumb_ca_1863.jpg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2722108075
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lavinia_Warren_-_Brady-Handy.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Myrtle_Corbin.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Myrtle_Corbin_by_JR_Applegate_c1880.JPG
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Microcephaly-comparison-500px.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zip_the_pinhead.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Poster_-_Freaks_02.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Randian.1906.jpg

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